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Show 953 night and then went out to Hanksville and further north, overland. R. 2261- 2262. His next trip on the Colorado River was in June, 1898, when he went to Hite from Hanksville with a pack train and down to Good Hope Bar on horseback, where he was employed by the Good Hope Mining Company for about three months. The mining company at Good Hope were operating a sluice box arrangement about two hundred yards long and used a forty foot water wheel to hoist the water into the flume and carry it back into a small reservoir where the water was stored to use in sluicing gravel bars. R. 2262. During the three months he was at Good Hope there were an average of twenty men working there and supplies were brought to the camp from Hanksville and Hite, being brought down the river from Hite in a sturdily built twenty foot row boat intended to carry about a ton. " Q Did you participate in the operation of these boats? " A I did. " Q How were they gotten up stream? " A By rowing and towing, the usual method." R. 2263. At this time he again met Mr. Stanton and his party of about ten men doing assessment work on the river for the purpose of holding a right- of- way for the railroad. They were working in the vicinity of Good Hope and Hite. This was during the summer of 1898. R. 2263- 2264. " BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: " Q You are sure that work was for the railroad? " A That is what I understood. " Q You don't know one way or the other, then? " A That was my understanding." R. 2264. |